Conklin, New York: Five boys see domed object and small figure in tree, ground traces

Shortly after noon on July 16, 1964, five boys (Edmund Travis, Randy Travis, Floyd Moore, Billy Dunlap and Gary Dunlap) were playing around an apple tree at Conklin, New York, when they noticed a shiny, dome-shaped object in a field along the roadside. Looking for the source of a whistling sound, they spotted a 3-foot-tall humanoid figure crouching in a tree about 150 feet away, dressed in a shiny black uniform, short-sleeved shirt and black helmet; the whistling appeared to come from its stomach. The boys threw stones and apples at it without reaching it. After about 15 minutes the figure, moving stiffly, fell backwards out of the tree, floated slowly into the bushes and was seen crawling through the weeds back to the object. A round, flattened area with crushed grass and broken bushes was found in the field, with dried yellow moss in the middle that apparently had been subjected to great heat, and three depressions where the object's legs apparently had been. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.